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...Dean Hanford is the boss of the undergraduate world, the numerous clerks and secretaries are the backbone of the Dean's Office. Some of the secretaries, such as Dean Hanford's Miss Eva Weeks, Miss Helen Lang in the Freshman office, and Miss Rosalie S. Magruder of the Records Office, have worked in University Hall much longer than any of the deans and know more about the College's ins and outs. According to old timers, the visual appeal of the Dean's Office secretarial staff has noticeably improved within recent years...

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: Dean's Office, the Hub of Undergraduate Life | 3/28/1940 | See Source »

...silk stockings, the American Federation of Hosiery Workers (C. I. O.) last week featured a full-page advertisement in the Knit Goods Weekly, showing Hollywood Star Jean Parker, sleek limbs sheathed in stockings stamped with the union label. The caption: Movie Stars Demand Hosiery Union Label. (Actresses June Lang, Arleen Whelan will decorate future ads in other trade journals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Limbs | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...correspondents that has traveled with him scores of thousands of miles. Piped aboard the Tuscaloosa, he posed for the usual pictures, standing at the rail; soon tired, he rested in a chair, bundled against the damp, cold day. Three wire-service reporters* trode up the gangplank of the destroyer Lang; the destroyer Jouett stood by. Ten minutes after the 21st salute-gun had boomed, the three warships slipped out into the Gulf of Mexico. As shipmates the President took no politicians, no bigwigs, no intimate advisers, but three men who were once described at the White House as "the only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Deep Waters | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Dominic Mussolini, 57, unemployed steel worker, second cousin of the Italian dictator, with whom he used to play as a child, became a U. S. citizen in Warren, Ohio. Anton Lang Jr., professor of German at Georgetown University, son of the late Cristus of the Oberammergau Passion Play, filed a petition for U. S. citizenship in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...liquor, undisturbed by crowds thronging shops to get their last drink of toddy, the potent, fresh or fermented palm tree sap which, retailing for 4? a pint, gives India's native drinkers most of their alcohol. At the Royal Yacht Club Britons drank champagne and sang Auld Lang Syne as midnight struck and prohibition went into effect in the Bombay Presidency (77,221 square miles). For Bombay's 8,000 foreigners, mostly located in the city of Bombay (pop. 1,161,383), the law meant liquor rations -seven bottles of whiskey, or 21 bottles of wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Toddy and Taxes | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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